Landmarks in Ancient Dover, New Hampshire by Mary P. Thompson, Durham, N.H. ©1892, Printed by the Republican Press Association, Concord, N.H. LANDMARKS: Cotterill's Delight NAMES: MASON, Mr.; SHERBURNE, Henry; SHERBURNE, John; HAYENS, Samuel; Cotterill's Delight. This place is mentioned in May , 1653, when the inhabitants of Strawberry Bank petitioned the General Court at Boston to grant them " the necke of land beginninge in the Great Bay, at the place called Cotterill's Delight so running to the sea." This petition was "re- spite because of Mr. Mason's claim." (N.H. prov. pap., 1: 208.) In the division of the Swamscott Patent (otherwise called the Hilton or Squamscot Patent), May 22, 1656, the territory assigned to Dover included "all the marsh from Hogstye Cove round about the bay up to Cotterill's Delight, with 400 acres of upland, as granted by the Court, bounded and laid out and possessed by the inhabitants of Dover," etc. (N.H. Prov. Pap., 1: 222-223.) This is called the first division of that Patent. As this division extended up the Great Bay shore to Cotterill's Delight, and the second division began 40 poles below Sandy Point, and extended towards Exeter, there can be no doubt as to the situation of Cotterill's Delight. It is at the upper end of the beautiful shore of Great Bay known as Bay Side, beginning 40 rods below Sandy Point, whence ran the old line from the Great Bay, extending down between Portsmouth and Hampton. Henry and John Sherburne and Samuel Haynes were authorized by the town of Portsmouth, Ap. 6, 1666, "to meet the neighbors of Hampton, to run the lyne between the towns of Portsmouth and Hampton, provided it be run from Cotterill's Delight, and from thence unto a little river about half a mile beyond Little Boar's head." (Ports. Records.) PG 50-51 LANDMARKS: Cotterill's Delight NAMES: CANNEY, THOMAS; FURBER, William; HUSSEY, Richard; WILLEY, Thomas; WEBB, George; WEEKS Family; WALDRON, Richard; LAKE, Thomas; WIGGIN, Simon; WIGGIN, Andrew; WIGGIN, Jonathan; SINKLER, John; WIGGIN, Bradstreet; BRACKET, Joshua; WIGGIN, Capt. Thomas; The grants made by the town of Dover on the shore of Great Bay to Thomas Canney, Wm. Furber, Richard Hussey, Thomas Willey, George Webb, and perhaps others, were all above the mouth of Winnicot river, and of course below Cotterill's Delight. These grants are now owned for the most part by the Weeks family. Beyond lay the large tract which Richard Waldron and Thomas Lake reserved for themselves, which no doubt included Cotterill's Delight. That the Greenland line began 40 rods below Sandy Point Sept. 1, 1719, is shown by a deed of that date from Simon, Andrew, and Jonathan Wiggin, and John Sinkler, guardian of the children of Bradstreet Wiggin of Quamscott, deceased, conveyeing to Joshua Bracket of Greenland in the township of Portsmouth, 71 acres in their grandfather Capt. Thomas Wiggin bought of Mr. Richard Waldron and Thomas Lake, "bounded att a clump of trees standing on a piece of old planting land near forty rods below Sandy Point, as by deed of the year 1658,--which tract said Bracket is now in possession of, bounded as follows, begining at a stake standing in a piece of Old Indian Ground, 15 rods from highwater mark, about 40 rods below Sandy point, and from said stake S.E. 287 rods to an ash tree, then S.W. 40 rods to a black ash, then N.W. to two stones 3½ rods N.W. of brandy rock, thence N.E. to the first bound." here no doubt was Cotterill's Delight. PG 51 LANDMARKS: Cotterill's Delight NAMES: COTTERILL, Robert; COTTERILL, Francis; COTTRELL, Francis; CHAMPRNOWNE, Francis; GORGES, Samuel; COTTERELL, Jane; COTTERELL, John, Esq.; PENDLETON, Capt. James; FURBER, William; COTTERELL, Dorothy; PENDLETON, Edmund; PENDLETON, Brian; The name of Cotterill's Delight cannot with certainty be traced. There was Robert Cotterill in Providence, R.I., in 1645, and a Francis Cotterill or Cottrell at Wells, Maine, in 1668. The name may have been given by Francis Champernowne, who was connected with the Cotterells of England, through the Gorges. Sir Ferdinando Gorges' nephew, Samuel Gorges (born in 1604) , married Jane , daughter of John Cotterell, Esq., of Somersetshire, Eng. The Cotterells were also connected with the Pendletons, who had large grants from the town of Portsmouth in early times, but afterwards left the province. Capt. James Pendleton had, at least , a small grant of 15 acres "at Greenland" in Jan. 1667, "one side joining to Dover," and adjacent to the land of Wm. Furber. (Ports. Records). His daughter, Dorothy Cotterell, widow of "Westerly, in King's Co., colony of Rhoad Island and Providence plantations," Aug. 1, 1734, conveyed to Edmund Pendleton of said Westerly, all right and title to any lands, tenements, etc., that had or might come to her from her honored grandfather, Brian Pendleton, late of Saco, gent., deceased, and all claim to lands, etc., that belonged to her father James Pendleton, late of Westerly, deceased. PG 51-52 Submitted by C. Parziale **************************************************************************** * * * * Notice: Printing the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter informa- tion is included. 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